International Journal of Pharma and Bio Sciences
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10.22376/ijpbs.2019.10.1.p1-12
Volume 6 Issue 3
2015 (July - September)
CUTANEOUS LEIOMYOMA: A CASE STUDY WITH REVIEW OF LITERATURE ON RARE VARIANTS AND CLINICAL BEHAVIOUR
Cutaneous leiomyomas are unusual benign smooth muscle tumors that comprises of three distinct types such as piloleimyoma, angioleiomyoma, and genital leiomyoma. However Cutaneous leiomyoma tumor arises from errector pili muscle sharing similar histological features with uterine atypical or symplastic leiomyoma showing atypical cellularity with pleomorphic nuclei with variable mitotic activity. Six other cases have been reported so far and, in spite of its name and of being a smooth muscle proliferation, no recurrences nor metastasis have been reported. The present study briefs a series of 5 interesting cases of cutaneous leiomyoma presented as subcutaneous masses with a brief note on its review of literature. The present study advocates the clinicians to include cutaneous leiomyoma as a differential diagnosis on all patients presenting with subcutaneous masses
DR.ANANDRAJ VAITHY.K AND DR. DHANANJAY KOTASTHANE
cutaneous leiomyoma, smooth muscle proliferation, immunohistochemistry
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